One of the so-called big guns being dragged out in the media recently to spread doubt on climate change is the BBC’s Andrew Neil.

The presenter has been criticised heavily for being openly biased against scientific evidence of global climate change – despite obviously being so ignorant about the science he doesn’t even understand the difference between ‘climate‘ and ‘weather‘:

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But this is not the first time Neil’s been a bit confused about science.

Way back in 1996 Neil actually believed that AIDS was not caused by HIV infection and that heterosexuals couldn’t catch AIDS through heterosexual sex.

Here are some direct quotes from Neil on HIV infection and AIDS which are taken from an article he wrote in 1996 in the Sunday Times called “The Great AIDS Myth“:

“The fact is that the number of people who have caught Aids through normal vaginal sex is infinitesimal.”

“There are two overwhelming ways in which Aids is transmitted: one is to stick an infected needle in your skin; the other is to stick a penis into an anus.”

“The Aids lobby spent millions on advertising campaigns telling young, white, affluent middle-class heterosexuals – a category at almost no risk at all – that they were in just as much danger as anybody else.”

“The heterosexual epidemic never materialised.”

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Obviously, since Neil wrote that piece, we have now learned about the devastating consequences of the AIDS epidemic in Africa – where it overwhelmingly affects heterosexuals.

Reblogged this on TheCritique Archives and commented:
It’s amazing how few of the “high profile” Climate Change Skeptics out there have any real scientific background at all, let alone have studied Climatology. Andrew Neil’s view on any number of scientific matters is a joke.

Reblogged this on Beastrabban’s Weblog and commented:
This isn’t the first time Neil’s published Right-wing rubbish without any factual basis as news. Over a decade ago one of the contributors to Lobster took Neil to task for claiming that Salvador Allende’s democratically elected Marxist government in Chile was resorting to force to prepare the way for a violent revolution. The contributor wrote to Neil asking for an explanation and for his sources for this spurious tale. Answer, as they say, came there none.

Climate is in constant change; some places for better, others for worse

on the other hand, GLOBAL warming is a con. ”Skeptics” lie that past localized warmings were GLOBAL – Warmist lie about GLOBAL warming in 100years. The laws of physics don’t permit warmings to be global; the same laws of physics don’t permit ice ages to be global = ”climatology” is a con profession: http://globalwarmingdenier.wordpress.com/climate/

Reminds me of the advertisement campaign in South Africa some years ago, after the then Pope said condoms increase the chance of catching AIDS. Not too far a stretch of the imagination that he might have agreed.